# Senior Mechanical Engineer

**Company**: Cyngn
**Location**: Mountain View
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160,000-171,000 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

About Cyngn

Based in Mountain View, CA, Cyngn is a publicly-traded autonomous technology company that deploys self-driving industrial vehicles like forklifts and tuggers to factories, warehouses, and other facilities throughout North America.

We are seeking a Sr Mechanical Engineer who can own the mechanical design, integration, and release of major vehicle systems. This is a high-impact, technically demanding position where you will drive the development of core mechanical subsystems from concept through mass production.

## Responsibilities

- Own the mechanical technical specification, design, integration, and release for vehicle systems

- Create CAD models, detailed drawings, and specifications for parts and assemblies (SolidWorks)

- Drive product development cycles from concept to production, ensuring manufacturability and reliability

- Troubleshoot issues, identify root causes, and design corrective/preventative solutions

- Build, assemble, and operate test fixtures for mechanisms , including necessary coding & electrical setups

- Characterize sensing systems (encoders, sensors) for bandwidth, latency, and other system parameters to support closed-loop motor control

- Develop and execute test plans, analyze results, and drive design improvements based on data

- Work closely with electrical, software, and external engineering partners to meet system-level goals for safety, performance, and cost

- Serve as design release engineer for systems such as Electronics enclosures, harnesses, and sheet metal assemblies

- Own subsystem Bills of Materials (BOM), assembly structures, and documentation within PLM systems (Arena)

- Collaborate with program management to plan development schedules, builds, and resolve supply chain challenges

## Qualifications

- 4~8 years of experience in mechanical engineering, ideally in robotics, automotive, or other complex electromechanical systems

- Proven record of taking products from concept through mass production

- Strong proficiency with SolidWorks and 3D CAD modeling best practices

- Understanding of GD&T and tolerance stack-ups for precision assemblies

- Experience with PLM systems (Arena or similar)

- Hands-on prototyping and test experience , comfortable assembling and debugging systems in a lab

- Analysis skills for simple FMEA & Thermal simulations

- Ability to collaborate across disciplines

- Excellent problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to design decisions

## Benefits & Perks

- Health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA and FSA (Health & Dependent Daycare), Employee Assistance Program, 1:1 Health Concierge)

- Life, Short-term and long-term disability insurance (Cyngn funds 100% of premiums)

- Company 401(k)

- Commuter Benefits

- Flexible vacation policy

- Sabbatical leave opportunity after 5 years with the company

- Paid Parental Leave

- Daily lunches for in-office employees and fully-stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages

- Monthly meal and tech allowances for remote employees

## Skills

### Required
- SolidWorks
- 3D CAD modeling
- GD&T
- PLM systems
- Mechanical engineering
- Robotics
- Automotive
- Electromechanical systems

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